Improvement in box-scrapers



L. BAILEY.

BOX-SCRAPER.

No.182.,881. Patented Oct 3,1876.

WITNESSES: INVENIOiR:

UNITED STATEs PATENT QFFIGE LEONARD BAILEY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOX-SCRAPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,881, dated October3, 1876; application filed September 13, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD BAILEY, of Hartford, in the county ofHartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements pertaining to a Box- Scraper, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whereFigure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. 3 is a bottom view.Fig. 4 is a top view, chisel removed. Fig. 5 is a central section onplane a; m, Fig. 2, chisel removed.

The letter a denotes a forked handle, whereby to move the scraper backand forth. I) denotes a rod, which is at once a pivot-bar for head 0 anda front rest for chisel d. The back side of the pivoted head 0 isobliqued, to form a bed for the chisel, which chisel is held in place bythumb-screw 0 running up through the bed elongation c from the backside, and bearing against the back side of the chisel.

The throat f may be made larger or smaller, and the cut of the chiselcorrespondingly increased or decreased by manipulation of the guard orgage i, pivoted by its side arms 4; on the rod 12, given a closingtendency by the spring-bar i and opened against this tendency by thethumb-screw g.

The features of invention, specified in the first two clauses of thefollowing claim, are applicable as well to spokeshaves as toboxscrapers.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination, head 0, having bedelongation 0, chisel (1, front rest b, and thumb-screw e passing throughthe bed elongation and pressing on the back side of the chisel, allsubstantially as shown and described.

2. In combination, bar I), head 0, chisel d, guard or gage i pivoted onbar I), spring-bar i and screw g, all substantially as shown anddescribed.

3. In combination, forked handle a, bar b, serving as pivot for head 0and front rest for chisel d, pivoted head 0 having elongation c, andscrew 6, all substantially as shown and described.

LEONARD BAILEY.

Witnesses:

ROBT. F. GAYLoRD, OHAs. BUOKLAND.

